Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> added the comment: Yet, Greg’s point is that this only works if the developer tests their code with the new Python version.
I’m not sure that his proposal is better though. I think static checkers are the better remedy. On Sun, Sep 30, 2018 at 10:02 AM Serhiy Storchaka <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote: > > Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka+cpyt...@gmail.com> added the comment: > > There is a large difference with the DeprecationWarning in the md5 and sha > modules. > > A SyntaxWarning is emitted when the compiler compiles Python sources to > bytecode. Since bytecode is cached in pyc files, you will see it at most > once at first run of the application. If the application compiles Python > files at install time, warnings will be emitted at that time, and will be > not emitted when run the application. If the application is distributed > with precompiled pyc files, the user will not see warnings at all. If the > developer installs dependencies that contain this error, his will see a > warning only once, and can either ignore it (taking the current state), or > report a bug. Warnings will not annoy him when he debug his code. > > In contrary, the DeprecationWarning was emitted every time when you import > the md5 or sha modules. > > Professional applications likely already use checkers which caught this > error. This warning will help non-professional applications distributed as > a single script or handful of scripts. Users of such application often seat > near its author. In many cases the only user is its author. > > ---------- > > _______________________________________ > Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> > <https://bugs.python.org/issue34850> > _______________________________________ > -- --Guido (mobile) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue34850> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
